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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-9-30, Page 6w r en • >.e r• c .0 ren are p ace in an a delightful breeze at Barr Inland. 1 She felt that she was going 'to have "I've been ceated," was the reply. unfortunate environment, or camp to oto grips with the real trials of life. Mother pours aver them the in:exhaust- I ibie floods of• her sympathy. until she Boys. and i tl HAUS REVENGE `BY GUINEVERE, Had thrust his hands into his pewk- ets, and . !. exd with a defiant air. "I tell eau I'm going!" he said, de- eidedly. "But +;;':ti eexx't," an8ivered his sister Nell. ` Cell he, Dorrie?" Perri.: Trent shook her head, "Aunt Prissy is going with us, awl that's a:.," she said. "Nell and I plan;- ned this trip just for ourselves-" "We' -i, I don't see what difference it car" make if Lenny and I go, toe." "What's that? Did you speak to me, Heal?" asked Lanny, looking up from• his book. "It's just mean!" exclaimed Hal, with an injured air. "The girls are Aunt Priscilla looked doubtful. "I'm afraid the water is too cold." "Oh, no. ' It's real warm," assured Nell' "You Will cut your feet: on the stones." "It is all sandy,"Dorrie explained. "But the crabs—„ "We're not afraid of crabs," they cried in uniso'ii. So, with bare feet, they raced an the sand and through the water, and to see then one would never think that Nell Morris was called dignified in school, and that Dorrie could sit in the. parker and entertain companyas de- murely as her mother, or wait on her in; to row over to Barr Island for, sick cousin with manners as quiet and he day, and take their lunch, and they gentle as a real nurse. won't let us go with them. It would "I'm awfully' hungry, said Dorrie,. be grand fun, and we could get some when their shoes and stockings had of tiles.: shells we want for our been replaced. aquarium." "And I feel in needof my^tanic," "So we could," said Lenny.Aunt Priscilla added, "Open the has - "Ws can get the shells for. you," . feet, Nell." Dorrie •said. With visions of cold chicken and "You needn't!" Hal returned, short- apple pie, the girls knelt on the rocks, and 'raised the lid of the well-filled "Never mind hitn," said Nell, throw- basket. Then Nell started back, with ing her atrni around her friend's waist. "Let us go and tell May to put up our lunch." And they went out together, leaving I "What?" cried Dorrie. Hal toscowl and shake his fist at the! It was true. Slowly they drew forth door closing behind them. E the contents of the basket—a piece of "As if we'd trouble them at a:!" he' wood, wrapped in a napkin, and a few said, indignantly. r "I'm going down-. chips and stones; that was all. No a cry of dismay. "Oh, Dorrie, Dorrie, our lunch is gone!" PROPOSED EXTENSION TO EXHIBITION GROUNDS Blum prepared for the Canatlintn Nationed Eichd,bltiom management of the proposed extensionof the grounds east to Straohen avenue where a hand- Serge nee eastern entrance is to be erected. It-ls proposed to bring Houle- yard Drive to the entrance an:d construct anew crest and west avenue to con- nect with the street running north of the grandstand Bourev'amd Drive sweeping southwest to the iake stone.. On the north sttde of the avenue west of the eniranee it is proposed to erect a new electrical building and on the south slide a new automobile bull'ding. Proviciron is to be made also for a new Dominic" building,: to be the nucleus of an -Empire Court. Changes in the street railway •emtranoe are ago to be made. The tracks will be brought in orthe north side of the grounds.- The exhibitioti directorate will ask the city eoux.•cil this fall to sanotion the plea, but it will be some years_ before it is put into execution. stairs to ask Mother." 1 battle of tonic, no sandwiches, no why she had ever come on this wild, j 4 Th.. Flute Among the Daisies. Mrs. Morris had Already heard; grapes, no cold custards nor apple- , eenee!ess trip, t 1 heard a soldier, idle in the sun Ne.t�'s plea. t pie, and then the two hungry girIs set : They would be caught in the' rain, ! - "We don't want the boys to go," • upa howl that.brou ht Aunt Priscilla P1aY ,softly on'a flute. There where i rg too, she said. She saw a dark cloud' he sat spreading: Inn short, warm turf was thick with By-and-by ' Nell started up. Dome's aunt." have done!"' exclaimed Nell. -• ," , i„ P "Is daisies starred. Theresa boat. she cried. it• "`And search for shells, and sketch "What! No lunch?" asked Aunt _ y I14loinino was all about him, blue and yes it is John. gold; in our folios," added Dorrie. !Priscilla. "And no tonic? What shall ' in. Hethought% a storm It wasJol" "Very well," said Mrs. Morris. ' Iado?" was threateriing, he said, and he had tHigh heaven over bite, without a So, when Hal came rushing in, he "And we are all hungry as bears," better' come after them; so they a:11 cloud, , • teased and argued in vain, and went!groaned Dorrie. !And through the heat there bleivea lit; went back a net subdued alt i ""This is Hag's work, I know," said Hal and Lenny saw them coining l it breeze. The ,:lir he played was delicate and Nell, "because we wouldn't•let hini.and and darted out of sight behind the lilac ; sweet, Lenny come with us:' bushes. But Mrs. Morris found them "But I can't do without mytonic"severeSimple and artless; rippling like a and administered to both a . put in Aunt Priscil:a, dismally. "`I scolding. . stream. It was- a- tune familial' and outworn, • take it before every rime:4: But Hal had his revenge. Aunt Prise Yet from i ir- xo pile place, the hour, and c they said."They are always teasing . from her seat on the rocks. . us. We want to have a quiet day with I "Just . see what those horrid boys back to the library with a doleful face. "Mother says we can't go, Lenny, and that settles it; but it is all NeiPs fault. Such a lunch as they're going to have! Chicken sandwiches, cold custards, grapes, and an apple pie. Oh, what a feast!" "Well; as we haven't any meal, you cilia refused to accompany the girls on And Hal threw a book at the cat, don't need any tonic," .. said Dorrie, any other pleasure trip, the sketches who had strayed in, and danced a jig with an effort at merriment, made, and the Barr Island to relieve his feelings, Then Nell looked at Dorrie, find' twere notrip was a faiure- cumstancs It took new grace, a freshness like young dawn. Meanwhile, preparations were going Dorrie looked at Nell, Past noon and i The breeze matte merry with it, and, " Sr c-Townsta!rs. The lunch was pack- i Your ho u s ago, under the tree, IIaf ligh t foot. no .uncle, and John was not to curie and Lenny had enjoyed a feast of D 1 like a playmate here, ed in a light widow basket, and set after them until six o'clock! i arced with it out in the porch. - They covered the basket, and then appe chicken sandwiches, ec ti custards and and there, apple pie, and that accounted for their And all the multitude of daisies heard. Hal and Lenny sat on the gate -posts Nell took up her sketch -book. 1 small appetites at dinner -tine. •- Iiow their gay innocence had found a to watch them depart, looking at each i "There are some pretty little scenes And, to add to the disappointment volt% other with comical glances, and appar- here. You don't care if wo go on an of the iris the.looked-for storm did —W.I{ersiey Holmes,. in "In. the ently quite recovered from their lis exploration, do you, Aunt Priscilla?" not take p'_ace. Open;" appointment. asked Dorrie. "Next The girls waved their handkerchiefs . time we plan a pleasure trip No, if you dont go too far; but I' we will take care that Hal does not as they drove away, and Aunt Pris- am so hungry!" I hear of it," said Nell. - eifa smiled upon them graciously- 1 At a little. distance from the beach "And don't set your- lunches out on Nice boys!"she remarked. `I won -they sat down- I the front porch," suggested Hal, teas - der they didn't want to go, too! 1 "See this pretty rock, with the ferns in 1 y. "Oh, they did," said Nell, "but when and grasses, and this queer -shaped t - Dorrie sighed. they found they couldn't, they stopped. flower," said Nell; "I'll try. tliis." 1 "Afterfall," she said, "I don't think teasing, Dorrie, too, sat with buopencil, but it would have been so bad if you had "Porrie, did you put my bottle of j after fifteen minutely' work she leaned' ori Ieft AuntPrisclla's tonic." tonic in the basket?" back. "I think she was as much to blame "Yee, ma'am," answered Dorrie. "It "Mine is 'finished," she said, and t as I was," spoke up Hal in his own • mean I gave it to Lenny to put in." I thrust the paper under Nell's eyes. I defence "Then it's a'l right. I never rouldThere was rudely drawn two girls 1 "It mals the dark thuds—vee all do without my tonic," said Aunt Pris- a in shade hats savagely attacking thought it would rain," said Lenny. cilia. I huge cake and a little,thin lady hu g-1 little old-fashioned and fidgety d • ' i i � g- However that was, the greater share. theging a bottle of immense size,-abe"ed 1 of the -blame fell on;Hal, and though was Aunt Priscilla.She made. "Aunt Priscilla's Tonic."1 Nell finail • forgave him, and present- Perhaps. criminate application of sympathy to wrap their capes ;roundhen on then ,t y g r- > : h Dorrie!" said Nell laughing,: ; ed him withethe she -is for his aqua - 11 .I ,dlo their caiildren. For pity pttaisses of dclutched he d f ate O' ' g g' OldTene Schooner-- Well, want them to wander out of sight, but Then they e used their books and Barr s an without �a ing come back"" a It ss struggle a ay acus mrs _ went back to the beach.. "It was all Hal s fault, too."fanlune. We can be 'wept 'over until she was a pleasant old lady, neverthe our backbones melt. less and helped them search for hells Aunt Priscibla was in despair,and Bless Her Heart ped s > IS ANY WIFE REALLY HAPPY? The other day I Was ata friend's house, and islet a•wonian 1 had known an yearsago,t nt Y 8 She had ixairied e'ine•e 1 last saw .her,' We talked of. many things, innludiiig husbands• and happiness, ' :n honestly say that my'buahand hes ..,.tde me happy,"said Mrs, Smith. "Really HapPY?" • 'The qu•eetloa fell from my lips al- most unconsciously, I was tiorry 1' had Spoken, for there was no answer from Mre. Smith, and when I looked at her I thought I de"tested on her face a shadow -not a shadow of gloom, but" }oat tire fleeting shadow that you May see sweapiuge •across the moorland' on a summer's day, I glanced in the :di- rection ,of her gaze. She was, lociking at her husband. sittiug on the oppastte side'' be the oblong table. He was not even endeavoring to entertain any- body. ny body. .He. was . just eating hie supnei•. - * * * Mr. Smith was typical of a countless ?lumber ofmen. He had mad.° a wo- man .happy; but he had not ;Wade her really happy. I don't think it was in l itis power to, snake his wife really hap- py. For with all his .good qualities he lacked something which. she admired In•othere, Ile Vias just ordinary." It is very di$lciilt for a man to make a woman really happy-eso' difficult that one might almost think it impos- sible. I; knew a charming girl who went about b• good deal with a friend of- mine whom Ithought a very flu Y fellow.,. I was hoping they would "make a match of it," and one day I asired her In aebantering •way. "when .it was nom- ing off." She answererl me, quite seriously. "You know,"'.she said, "I like him im- mensely.• We have a great deal in common. He loves uidubic mind dance bag and; pieturee, end: so do T, - are happy when we are togethee,'but when I am alone 1 cit and wonder -ea -ad Wee. der -•-whether he could mane ane really • happy • "I went out with him last !light; wai hada jolly little meal and afterwards we . went down to' the daube liali and enjoyed the dancing, I cella limine perfectly happy, but this morning 1 found myself 1n the same state of per- plexity—analysing our conversation and my own feelings and wondering whether Ted is just the one man I WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA? When• Cofd b s disoovereti Aineri`• ca, as the Sehooebooks still• say be .did lie was'a few conturles 'toe. late, Fe some time past the historians hove agreed that not only did Cabot, in an English ship, reach, the meinland 'be' fore limn, but •the Vikings had .landed in New En.gle:4d a gopd few centuries earlier. 1 Now, a discovery in Spokane, Waeh ington, not only provides the last, un - could go • through, life with, - the one ; answerable bit of evidence regarding span who -could make me really happy, the Viking dis-bovery of America, but. Can't you help ire?" also shpws that -the adventurous seas I shook my head•, rovers penetrated much farther into * * * * the country than has geneelel'ly been I ani inclined to think that it ds supposed. For Spokane is over 2,090 easier fora woman to make a man miles away from; the ` New England really happy'than for a man to snake States, which are described in the a woman so • She has always the -ad- Saga of !lief the - Lucky, and where vantage that most men find sonic por- traces of the- hardy Norsemen have • tion at least of their •happl.ness in previously been found. their work, A man has two mistress A Mesage From the Past, es to serve end one .must be his work• 1 Near Spokane stands a lava bottider, It is time easier for. a woniau to on which is an inscription which has make a man really !sappy than. it long puzzled the arohaeolbgists, Most would be if he had no, outside in- , of 'them, however, •put it down as In - tenets. In the Contrary case, to make ,lien tivriting. '1 filer theoiy seems to a woman really happy a man must , Ilama been wrong,' for the inscriptioo fli11. her whole life with •a happiness in; was ,examined by a;Norwegias t-cieut• 1 which there will be no unfulfilled hope, ist recently, and he,at once, declared or unsatisfied desire: 1 that' it, coneisted. of Neese runes;'.. or II ' I think it would help more women to , be reallyh as distinct' from ,bei letters. &PpY d The, runes are small and difficult .entirely happy if they would 'taise 'art to d•ecipber,; so; at the time of writing. . m•workthat. onl • distract their so e. w d 1 1. .c} the fuQl.•ns�cription has not been traria- Ithoughts from themselves and benefit fate -d. One laortion of 1 ,'however, is those around them.. It may be•'a•Pter said to record a fight between Vikings all, that the real true handl-! oss is not and Indians at Slrokane in _the year to be found through the medium of an A 1). 1010, or more than fifty years he- ather, at all, but lies in. the ;develop fore William the Conqueror landed: in meat of our own powers. Qt self -ex- 'England. •. g In its details this_ encounter seams to have resembledd the •hundreds of pression.—H., L. Confidence. fairy bells on the breeze as in a very ing chars -a -baric packed with A tour sight -seers expand slowly round the narrow turns of 'a desply-desosnding gorge. As it .rolled lower and lower, the battlemeited walls of granite rhea sheer nip for about four hundred feet, split and turreted by untold ages into the similitude of a fortress over- hanging the.road. An awed sense, as of relentless pen •derosity:, seemed to overtake,: the coni_ pany when, on rounding.. a fresh bend in the road, a . delightsome sight im- mediately cleared the atmosphere. . From many a little cleft in the dark, towering wail sprang- -tufts of hare- bells, .heavenly blue, each thread-like stalk gayly i struggles which' took place, centuries abandon of carefree joy. 'Things so :later, between frontiersmen and In - bright, so:graceful, so airy seemed duns•. The Viking party consisted of born of the sunrnier sky rather than _twenty-four men, seven women, and a r of earth. The dark gray background baby..- They had camped near this threw into exquisite relief their deli- rock, and were surprised by. Indians. este symm:etry and • lovely color. No Placing their womenfolk on top of the longer was the great rock mere pon- rook for safety, the -Vikings formed a derosity. It was mighty strength 'as- ring round the moulder aad fought. off surfing security. their assailants as long as they could!. Ireland's Afcient "Colony." The bagpipe did not originate in• Finally, twelve of the Vikings were. Scot:•and. It can be traced in ancient killed, but the rest managed to es - Persia and, by inference, in Egypt, - 1 ' cape: Some of then returned -to the Cha:dea, and ancient Greece, scene of the conaict later, 'burled their Mosquito bites 'can be treated wit.i dead,, an-dlpscribed the runes:telling tincture of.iodine, a weak solution of of their last fight. •-:Another part of ammonia, or iodine and glycerins the inscription is said to-. allude to a sw "ging and shaking its mixed. still earlier expedition of the Norse - Men. Where Will traces of these hardy � �g P PERILS OF MOTHER'S HERS S SYMPATHY wanderers be •discovered next? Per- haps• in Central America, where there are legends --of a barded white man who came from the East .and intro - When the Sweetest Thing on Earth is Dangerous. duoed culture. A.ocording to some authorities, how - anli n we speak of the qualities of a. reit that a poor girl or, boy has no ever, the Vikings were not the only at the head of the list (writes a we- I able result that unless their children Europeans who fouyd their way across I the Atlantic in the early days of our man correspondent). are made of sterner stuff than toast history. The Round Tower at New - youngsters are they become the em - Perhaps the thing that we remem- port, Rhode Island, has recently been Lar most about our own • nidithers,1 bittered idlers and loafers who never claimed' laimed as Trish In character, and a when we have grown old and they i try to do atkyt?tin•g, anti who go map" of a portion of North America, through life bewailing their lack of have gone from us, is how they kissed, described as Ireland the Great, which the place to make at well when we I leak dates from the • eleventh century, is 1 Their mothers' pity was their.ruin. stumbled and 1;ell; the tines we -wept! said to have been found in the library She made them failures when she; out our sorrows on their bresete and of the. Vatican. I might just as easily have made them 1 haw we could always turn from a •• successes by filling them with ambl- I se world that beat and bruised us to the 1 tion and courage, instead of self -spit- healing balm of her sympathy.one who poured over our scars the i pathy. Nine tenths of the men who 1 CUSin$'�1BC$ to D:iD are doing' the big things in this come' good mother we always put sympathy I chance in the world, with the inevit Wrong. - Yet-sytnpathy is one -of the• virtues try to -day were poor boys who had fowl The first duty of every ellen is to that lean to vice's side, and probably1 advantages of.education and, no luxur--oobe no other thing in the world has wreck- ' les. They had mothers who told then lin and as bl good.bThere can a never ed so many lives, is responsible for howfortunate - any possible substitute for a plan's so many weaklings; as mot -flees: indis- to ate ticoy were to'have'a job, personal rectitude. If he makes shih and who fired their imaginations with wreck• of his own lifer the moral.nni- tales ,of other poor boys,_ who had- verse has suffered.an. irreparable: -loss luster, an .t aides o e ' • • "you— There, your aunt is calling us:" �ium, she never referred to that day at olare, it' 'looks as though wo might fart:. We can be pitied until we are b• oat every time it rocked, and did not1 I d th t dd tooh 1 le to tr l against Forgiven: find gave them ideas about drawingbegan-complaining'dolefu'lly. Her head ' trouble, Mrs. Barn?"'' Hubert, who had been sent to, bed even get up to breakfast in the m "that's the t ou le, I that proved of much assistaneg. ached because she needed her lunch, bride who' for being naughty, cAultl not get to mg; and who forces her, or his ris- , what'it is in and of itsel•Y buiks'1iiaJl P 1 the grocer aslred the young And that is what many mothers do t It was a warm day, but there was and she wished she was home again: lis stormed into his store. •sleep. At ten o'clock he crept clown- tore, to support him. The mother is ' In proportion to the influence it exerts d I i tl i 1 'Id 1 d • worried to death over him but when worked •thele way up to • fame and for- ' Whatever religion teaches of forgive - tune. 1 nese beyond our merit, no system qY There isn't a day that some mother ' to atone for per - theology knows a; way l doesn't ask me what she shall do with sopa! wring doing. a son who refuses to work, who won't But it is possible for a life to be orn- lived so worthily or'unworthily. that ' ' The. Trials ',of Lite.: stairs and said to his startled mother With basket in Band, they strolled a "spell," " she said and Dorrie, who "I ordered macaroni for dinner,' and "Didn't you say 1 was• not -to g + P ' I lee until I had made m •peace with along the beach, finding shells of every knew what : Aunt Priscilla's spells all the delivery boy brought me was a sleep Y , description, smooth and rugged, round were, sighed to herself, lot of empty stems!" - ' my. enemies, mummies? i . "Yes; dear," was the reply. i and cone --shaped, and a few p plc tined. She remembered the times at home 1 like the curled leaf of a rose. f Happy Bird Marriages. "W.ell, I've come down to forgive you when the o d lady, wrapped in a shawl, j 'One reason .why plater! birds get.and dad." with her head bandaged, lay on the said Nell, when the. basket was full, )1 along so pleasantly is that a bird lover. and they wandered bac!- to the rock gunge with moaningo and groanings,' keeps on being a lover. He does cot In zu:u:and the air is so clear that Priscilla t reading., and.'found fault: with everything. j drop the delicate little attentions, so objects of fair size can :he distinguished where Aunt Prisc sa "1 wish John would come" she said.' dear "We'll wait until after lunch to begin r to the feminine heart, but .con- at a'cli4tance of severs or eight miles t Their pleasure for the day was over. tinues to bring her the reddest cheesy, 1 by star:ight.` our sketches, for it is nearly noon p, now." 1' Aunt Priscilla did not want them to and to sing for her Itis lateg,t songs, l •-- ow the ouu ,est bi+ d+li is feather -1 r " far about ":Please, Aunt Priscilla, may we go leave her again, and she sat there w-th until e , g , , ngA lightning flash lasts in wading?" asked Dorrie. her hand to her head, and wondered ed and gone. one -millionth part of a second. g "Hat wi11 be rle:2glited with. these;" • makes them so sorry for , themselves mpletely broken (men and there isn't aleft. rrho mothers who do the most harm. with their pity are those who, having little else to give their children, over- t whelm them with th•e sympathy that is their undoing. - Jt is• a common A°thing 'toheal. these others tellingtheir child- , an other Tivee. 1 point out to'her the obvious solution the first ]tin of the north - man lives g of the problem, which is turning him f ern kingdom of Israel, was not lacking out •of the house and forcing him. to in fine qualities. He had shown cane - earn his own living, she throws up her age and ability. Moreover, even in the hands in horror. ; 1 matter in which he did his great It is in vain that I point out to her wrong be was not without prgvoea-. that 1f the boy had to,work or starve, tion; he snarted•under:.Lbe sting ot an he would work. So she goes on en- , injury which wag .people s as , well couraging her son in being a parasite , becauseshefas his own. There' must have,baeti s so sorry for him. `' ! manyin his own, day -and: later who A mother's s m ath is h w. Y p Y t o rth_7a d acclaimed him a hero; and he nar- and most precious thing en earth -and rowly missed the: cheese' of becoming the most"•dangerous. Wise is the wo- worthily ' illustrious or' beim deoeni,ly, man who knows how to use it. Y d REG'LAiR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes. ' MOMS LOOK+ Pliel4EAC3 1 -in S Ot)Y 'fl4OF . TWO 8 \ A t. I FEEL- `'- AVJR►e1-11% 4. nEaLfins gleggie -real /2 55 V(, 1Ovi ARE `(OO PlankEAD3 WE WERE Nemec" 00 Atat't FOUR • -1p forgotten. But; `fie actually icon his place in history, as, the pian who sin - A -Mere Trifle. ned, and who niadd Israel to sin. Whether it is ever possible to cause 1 others to sin without ,sinning , our - seivees is a, question we diced not•dls- cites, Certainly, if, we knew that wee;, to be the :rest It of .an act, t hitih iu it- self might not be a 'wrong orad, we slioulcl sin ilii doing that.ac>t. But very • little of the good we do is clone . for ourselves. To be considerate of the good -of ethers is of the very essence of goodness le one's own•life, It is just as possible to exert a per- manent influence for goodas for harm. . II Jeroboam had done a good thing which had become -;a oilstone, and itis. nano had been forgee ten as .that of one having in any way accodnp eehed, it, still woid high heaven have made sure of the record, and a world that might'•inot bave known whom to thank would have breathed a 'blessing on a man unitnown but still a benefactor, who did ' right so inconspicuoatsly that tiro world forgot hite, but so effective• ly that for genea•ations, he helped, othere. to de 'right: I y��)A.Gyt T lits MRS. i UGAte OtJi i • Skeen.rRED A -, giT'CON i loon! =ti o yripht MPG,. 4's" e • - fair% Y •